In <566594.91769...@web65504.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>, on 01/31/2011 at 01:39 PM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> said:
>I agree with Elardus Engelbrecht. I understand the auditors have a >job to do, Shooting from the hip is not party of their job. However common it may be for auditors to generate BS requirements, that is *not* what they are supposed to be doing; they are supposed to be verifying compliance with policies and best practices. Actually doing their job instead of counting coup requires that they understand the environment that they are auditing. >From my perspective, the worst part is that while they are generating busy work they are failing to identify the real problems. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html